Jared “The Jackhammer” Papazian wanted to be in the UFC badly. Yet, though the call hadn’t come yet, he was confident that it would come…and soon. Papazian was so confident that he’d get the nod, in fact, that he recently turned down a bout in another organization in order to prepare for a fight in the vaunted Octagon.

Mixed Martial Arts is coming to the City of Angels. On Saturday January 28th California Fight Syndicate presents, Rivalry. CFS, California’s premier fight organization, comes to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the historic city of Santa Monica.